Hogarth's scenes of London life -- both the seedy backstreets and the salons of high society -- are the most extraordinary, arresting images of the everyday in the eighteenth century. Black men and women feature widely in his work, but until this book have been largely ignored by commentators. Blacks had become the "invisible faces" of Hogarth's art -- and of the eighteenth century in general. David Dabydeen draws back the curtain on these forgotten figures.
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Hogarth's scenes of London life -- both the seedy backstreets and the salons of high society -- are the most extraordinary, arresting images of the everyday in the eighteenth century. Black men and women feature widely in his work, but until this book have been largely ignored by commentators. Blacks had become the "invisible faces" of Hogarth's art -- and of the eighteenth century in general. David Dabydeen draws back the curtain on these forgotten figures.
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Very Good. Size: 6x0x9; [Interesting provenance: From the private library of renowned historian, Philip D. Morgan. ] Softcover. Shelf wear. Contemporary signature of Morgan on front end page, else unmarked. 158 p., ill., 25 cm. From the professional library of Dr. Philip D. Morgan, a professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. Morgan specializes in the African-American experience, the history of slavery, the early Caribbean, and the study of the early Atlantic world. Morgan is the author of more than 14 books on Colonial America and African American history. He has won both the Bancroft Prize and the Frederick Douglass Prize for his book Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry (1998).
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